Erie police search for gun in fatal shooting

Kenneth Ellis, 60, of Erie, is escorted from the Erie police station after being arraigned on Dec 2 for the murder of 37-year-old Stevenson Jordan. Jordan was shot on the 2300 block of German Street at about 10:15 p.m. Sunday, Dec 1, and was unresponsive upon his arrival to UPMC Hamot. Jordan was later pronounced dead. JARID A. BARRINGER/ERIE TIMES-NEWS

Erie police are continuing their search for a weapon in the fatal shooting of a city man on the east side Sunday night.

Police said this morning that they have not yet recovered the gun that they accuse Kenneth P. Ellis of unloading when Stevenson Jordan was fatally shot in the 2300 block of German Street on Sunday at about 10:15 p.m. Investigators charge that Ellis fired 13 rounds from a handgun, striking Jordan once on the right side of his lower back.

Police said Jordan, 37, identified Ellis, 60, through his street name, "Stitches," as the person who shot him.

Ellis was taken into police custody early Monday morning. He was arraigned late Monday afternoon on charges of criminal homicide, aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, carrying a firearm without a license and possessing an instrument of crime.

Investigators are continuing their search for more information in the case and want to speak to any other witnesses to the shooting. Anyone with information is asked to call Erie police Detective Sgt. Paul Bizzarro at 870-1163.